News from the Pews - 8 July 2025

Hello All

Very early news this week, as there are things that need flagging up asap...

As you know, the History Fair is happening in church and churchyard this coming Saturday 12 July, 12 noon - 4pm. Thank you very much to those who have already offered to help with the fair - refreshments, cake-baking, stewarding etc. Brilliant.

We are planning to have a stall at the fair of good quality bric a brac (good quality, please, as I have to lug anything that doesn't sell to the top floor of the vicarage to store it til next time, and then back down again, so the more sell-able it is, the better). We can't sell alcohol or anything with a plug, but anything else can be brought along on the day, or left in the (unlocked...) vestry, labelled, beforehand.

If you would be willing to do a stint on this stall sometime between 11.30am and 4pm, please could you let Ian and Isabel Hill know ian@temptasyon.co.uk, as they are kindly organising it and would, I am sure, be grateful not to have to stand behind it the whole time. Thank you!

Also... If anyone would be willing to tidy up the flowerbeds around the church in preparation for Saturday, that would be wonderful. You could do that any time except between 9.30am and 11.45am tomorrow - Wednesday - as there'll be a funeral taking place in church then. A memo not to use weedkiller, please (it destroys the masonry), and to wear a hard hat/cycle helmet if you go behind the fencing around the tower.

With best wishes all round

Eleanor